Price Check! Here’s What Sold—And For How Much—at Art Basel in Miami Beach 2019

Art Basel in Miami Beach was… bananas. The story of the week,
for better or worse, was Maurizio
Cattelan’s Comedian, the banana duck-taped to the
wall that sold for $120,000 (twice) and eventually became so
popular it had to be prematurely
removed.

Beyond the antics, sales at Basel were relatively fast-paced,
despite the fact that some big international collectors stayed
home. The fair reported an overall attendance of 81,000—2,000 fewer
than in 2018. Even in a less frantic atmosphere, however, business
began in earnest on the VIP preview day and continued through the
weekend.

To capture a snapshot of all this commerce, we combed through
reported sales from the participating galleries to pull together
some highlights. Nota bene: Sales reports are
notoriously slippery in the art world. Some purchases may have been
finalized long before the fair, while others might only be
handshake deals, still waiting on paperwork and cash. But prices
themselves are more reliably telling, providing a snapshot of where
individual artists stand in the matrix of the art market today.
Even here, of course, there is room for slippage: Some dealers
occasionally offer inflated figures, while others prefer to report
ranges or the “asking price” to obscure the actual selling price,
or to cover up favorable treatment that one buyer may have received
over another. (We did not include reported sales unaccompanied by a
price or price range in our list, so the galleries that tend to
disclose figures are disproportionately represented here.)

All prices have been sorted by medium and price and converted to
USD for ease of reading.

PAINTINGS

Over $2 million: A painting by Marc Chagall at Hammer
Galleries

$1.65 million: Helen Frankenthaler, White
Joy (1981) at Mnuchin
Gallery

$1.5 million: A Bridget Riley painting at David
Zwirner 

$1.5 million: A painting by Agnes Martin at Pace

$1.25 million: Alma Thomas, Azaleas (1969),
at Mnuchin Gallery

$1.1 million: Georg Baselitz, Herdoktorfreud
Grüßgott Herbootsmann (2011), at Thaddaeus Ropac

$1 million–2 million each: Multiple works by Alex Katz at
Marlborough

$900,000: A small still life by Wayne Thiebaud at Acquavella
Galleries

$750,000: Mark Grotjahn’s Untitled (Capri
51.75) (2019) at Blum & Poe

$750,000: Jonas Wood’s Yellow Orchid with Baby Snake (2019)
at David Kordansky

$650,000: Helen Frankenthaler, Storm (1963), at
Mnuchin Gallery

$575,000: Lee Ufan’s Dialogue (2019) at
Pace

$475,000: Ed Clark’s Untitled (2011) at Hauser &
Wirth

$450,000: Mary Corse, Untitled (Blue Inverted
Arch) (ca. 2001), at Kayne
Griffin Corcoran

$450,000: Milton Avery’s Eight Birds
Resting (1962) at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery

$450,000 each: Two new works by Turner Prize winner Oscar
Murillo at David Zwirner

$425,000: A new work by Dana Schutz at Petzel

$400,000: Jenny Holzer’s Call me (2019) at Hauser & Wirth

$385,000: Nicolas Party, Trees (2019), at
Hauser & Wirth

$375,000: Ed Clark, Untitled (Paris Series)
(1991), at Kayne Griffin Corcoran

$375,000: Roberto Matta’s Untitled (1988) at
Pace

$325,000: Robert Mangold, Double Line Column 7A
(2005), at Pace

$300,000: Ed Clark, Untitled (1962), at
Mnuchin

$300,000: A painting by Peter Saul at David Nolan Gallery

$275,000: Kenneth Noland, Begin and
End (1981), at Pace

$250,000–750,000 each: Multiple works by Fairfield Porter at
Marlborough

$250,000: Loie Hollowell, Standing in Water
(2019), sold as a promised gift to LACMA from Pace

$250,000: Michael Goldberg, Snow Walk (1959),
at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery

$250,000: Ghada Amer’s An RFGA Grid of 2019
(2019) at Marianne Boesky

$250,000: Kehinde Wiley’s Portrait of Jordan
Phillips (2019) at Galerie Templon

$225,000–275,000: Kehinde Wiley’s Portrait of Nelly
Moudime (2019) at Stephen Friedman Gallery

$225,000: Adam Pendleton’s new work Untitled (WE ARE
NOT) (2019) at Pace

$225,000 each: Two paintings by Fred Tomaselli at James
Cohan

$200,000: Rosemarie Castoro’s Rose Red (1964)
at Thaddaeus Ropac

$200,000: Henry Taylor’s Selfies (2019) at
Blum & Poe

$195,000: Rita Ackermann, Mama Safe
Crossing (2019), at Hauser & Wirth

$185,000: Tomoo Gokita’s Spanish
Harlem (2019) at Blum & Poe

$175,000: Mary Heilmann, Trip’s Left (2019), at
Hauser & Wirth

$165,000: Luchita Hurtado, La Familia (2019),
at Hauser & Wirth

$165,000: Alma Thomas, Untitled (ca. 1970) at
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery

$165,000: Nicole Eisenman, Sun In My Eye On The
Beach (2019), at Hauser & Wirth

$150,000: A painting by Raoul Dufy at Hammer Galleries

$150,000: Kim
Tschang-Yeul’s Composition (1970) at Tina Kim
Gallery

$150,000–175,000 each: Four works by Ed Clark at Mnuchin
Gallery

$130,000–190,000: Ged Quinn’s Burnt Village With
Northern Lights (2019) at Stephen Friedman Gallery

$130,000: Neil Beloufa, The Moral of the
Story (2019), at François Ghebaly

$120,000–150,000: Peter Halley’s Close (2019)
at Almine Rech

$100,000–150,000: Shirley Jaffe, Criss
Cross (1969), at Galerie Nathalie Obadia

$100,000: Fiona Rae’s Abstract I  (2019) at
Galerie Nathalie Obadia

Below $100,000: 

$85,000: Tara Donovan’s Composition (Cards) (2019)
at Pace

$85,000: Lesley Vance, Untitled (2019), at
David Kordansky Gallery

$80,000: A painting by Jonathan Meese at David Nolan

$80,000: Jules de Balincourt, Darwin’s
Nightmare (2016), at Thaddaeus Ropac

$80,000: A painting by Derek Fordjour at Petzel

$75,000: Lita Albuquerque, Auric Field_Diamond
Crystal Heart (2019), at Kohn Galley

$75,000: A painting by Jessica Dickinson at Altman Siegel

$75,000: Martin Wong’s Portrait of Roberto Duran (1984) at
P.P.O.W.

$65,000: A painting by Hilary Harkness at P.P.O.W.

$65,000 each: Works by Ebony G. Patterson at monique meloche;
another is on hold for the City of Miami Beach’s Legacy
Purchase Program

$60,000: Peter Buggenhout’s Mont Ventoz
#34 (2016) at Konrad Fischer Galerie

$60,000: Merrill Wagner’s Untitled (1964) at
Konrad Fischer Galerie

$60,000: Benoît Maire, Peinture de nuages
(2019), at Galerie Nathalie Obadia

$50,000–85,000 each: Four paintings by Elizabeth Neel at Salon
94

$50,000: Jonathan Wateridge’s Lilo (2018) at
Kayne Griffin Corcoran

$50,000: Jason Fox, Untitled (2019), at David
Kordansky

$50,000: Katherine Bradford’s Queen Mary at
Canada

$50,000: Matt Connor, Pieta III (2019), at
Canada

$48,000: Lita Albuquerque, Auric Field_Particle
Shift (2019), at Kohn Gallery

$48,000: Alan Charlton, Slot Painting
(4) (1971), at Konrad Fischer Galerie

$46,000: A painting by Federico Herrero at James Cohan
Gallery

$45,000: Vaughn Spann’s Messiah (2019) at
David Castillo Gallery

$45,000: A work by Liam Everett at Altman Siegel

$38,000: John McAllister, clouds embracing autumns
sustain (2019), at Wentrup

$36,000: David Renggli’s Desire Painting: Signaturea Go
Out Primo (2019), at Wentrup

$35,000–50,000: Chloe Wise’s To Be
Titled (2019) at Almine Rech

$35,000: Lita Albuquerque’s Solar Signature
Radiance (2019) at Kohn Gallery

$30,000: RJ Messineo, Building Sky (2019), at
Canada

$20,000–40,000: Marcus Jahmal’s Eternal
Reflection (2019) at Almine Rech

$20,000: Tatjana Valsang’s Krone (2016) at
Konrad Fischer Galerie

$15,000–45,000: All of Amoako Boafo’s works at Mariane
Ibrahim

$7,500–55,000: All of Cinga Samson’s works at blank projects’
booth

MIXED MEDIA/
SCULPTURE 

$3.8 million: Georg Baselitz, Sing Sang
Zero (2011) at Thaddaeus Ropac

$2.4 million: David Hammons’s mixed media
work, Untitled (Silver Tapestry) (2008), at Hauser &
Wirth

$1.65 million: David Hammons, African American
Flag (1990), at Mnuchin Gallery

$900,000: Donald Judd’s Untitled (1991) at
Thaddaeus Ropac

Approximately $700,000: A series of chromogenic prints by Cory
Arcangel at Lisson, sold to a German institution

$750,000: Donald Judd, Untitled (LASCAUX
89-25), at Thaddaeus Ropac

$700,000–800,000: Marcel Broodthaers, Poêle de
moules (1965) at Bergamin & Gomide

$700,000: James Turrell’s Firestone at Kayne
Griffin Corcoran

$595,000: Rashid Johnson, Untitled Escape Collage
(2019), at Hauser & Wirth

$400,000: Ghada Amer’s The Words I love the Most
(2012) at Marianne Boesky

$250,000–300,000: Elmgreen & Dragset, Kissing
Heads (2019), at Perrotin

$200,000: Kohei
Nawa’s PixCell-Bambi#21 (2019) at Pace

$175,000 each: Three sculptures by Woody De Othello at Jessica
Silverman Gallery

$150,000–200,000: Jiro Takamatsu, Oneness of
Brick (1971) at Stephen Friedman Gallery

$120,000 each: Maurizio
Cattelan, Comedian (2019), at Perrotin

$100,000: A work by Trenton Doyle Hancock at James Cohan
Gallery

$85,000: A steel wall hanging by Pae White at kaufmann
repetto

$80,000: Sanford Biggers, Giuco Piano (2019),
at David Castillo Gallery

$75,000: Lyle Ashton Harris, The Gold Standard I
(2019) at David Castillo Gallery

$70,000: Shinique Smith, Bale Variant No. 0025
(Good & Plenty) (2019), at David Castillo Gallery

$70,000: Arlene Shechet’s Pretty Please
(2019) at Pace

$60,000: Mika Tajima’s Negative Entropy (Bioweaving
Mill Brain Aneurysm Stent, Full Width, Red, Hex) (2019) at
Kayne Griffin Corcoran

$60,000–100,000: A ceramic by Yoshitomo
Nara, Ears (2018), at Blum & Poe

$50,000: Sam Moyer’s Pigeon’s Rock (2019) at
Kayne Griffin Corcoran

$49,000: Nevin Aladağ, Pattern Kinship, Screen,
Moonlight (Musterverwandtschaft, Screen, Moonlight) (2019), at
Wentrup

$43,000: Gregor Hildebrandt, Sonntage waren schon lang
lang, das was ich am Besten kann (Anne) (2019), at Wentrup

$40,000: Sam Moyer, Red Wall (2019), at Kayne
Griffin Corcoran

$40,000 each: Four works by Mika Tajima at Kayne Griffin
Corcoran

$40,000–90,000 each: A number of works by Sheila Hicks at Alison
Jacques Gallery

$36,000: Nevin Aladağ, Pattern Kinship
daisy (2019) at Wentrup

$35,000: Pepe Mar’s Elephant Ear (2019) at David
Castillo Gallery

$28,000: Sophie von Hellermann’s Bank Holiday
Monday (2019) at Wentrup

$26,000–45,000: Jonathan
Baldock, Untitled (2019), at Stephen Friedman
Gallery

$22,000: Sophie von Hellermann’s Snap (2019) at
Wentrup

$15,000: A video work by Zheng Bo at Edouard Malingue
Gallery

$10,000–20,000 each: Four works by Suki Seokyeong Kang at
Tina Kim Gallery

WORKS ON PAPER & PRINTS &
PHOTOGRAPHS 

$750,000: Robert Longo, Untitled (Gothic
Tree) (2018), at Thaddaeus Ropac

$220,000: Donald Judd’s Untitled (1993) at
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

$180,000 each: Two works by recent gallery addition Sam Gilliam,
both titled Untitled (2019), sold to Washington
DC-based collectors at Pace

$120,000: Hank Willis Thomas, Society of the Spectacle
(Spectrum V) (2019), at Kayne Griffin Corcoran

$100,000: A work on paper by Jorinde Voigt at David Nolan

$90,000: Robert Longo, Study of Swimmer with Black
Bar (2019), at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

$83,000: Georg Baselitz, Ohne Titel (2015),
at Thaddaeus Ropac

$75,000:Deborah Roberts, We are
Soldiers (2019), at Stephen Friedman Gallery

$72,000: Georg Baselitz, Ohne Titel (2019),
at Thaddaeus Ropac

$50,000: Thomas Ruff’s flower.s_01 (2018) at
Konrad Fischer Galerie

$50,000: A work on paper by Rachel Whiteread at David Nolan
Gallery

$50,000 each: Three collagraphs by Belkis Ayon Manso at David
Castillo Gallery

$40,000: A work on paper by Franz West at David Nolan
Gallery

$22,600: Tracey Moffatt’s The
Departure/Arrival (2019) at Tyler Rollins Fine Art

$22,500: Gordon Parks’s Store Front, Mobile,
Alabama (1956) at Alison Jacques Gallery

$20,000: Lauren Halsey, ma foreva
thang (2019), at David Kordansky

$20,000: Zheng Bo, Survival Manual 2 (Hand-Copied 1945
“Taiwan’s Wild Edible Plants”) (2016), at Edouard
Malingue Gallery

$14,000: Aaron Curry, Beasts Will Be
Beasts (2019), at David Kordanksy

$14,000 each: Multiple photograph editions by Wardell Milan at
David Nolan

$10,000: Gordon Parks, Untitled
Alabama (1956), at Alison Jacques Gallery

$4,000–7,000 each: Works by Corita Kent at Andrew Kreps
Gallery

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